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ISBN: 9780813511702 - Quicksand and Passing Quicksand and Passing
D McDowell McDowell, Deborah

ISBN10: 0813511704  ISBN13: 9780813511702
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Sep 1986
Two novels of 1920s Harlem describe Helga Crane's search for freedom and personal expression, and Irene's friendship with Clare, who attempts to pass for white. More

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ISBN: 9780192832504 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass McDowell, Deborah E

ISBN10: 0192832506  ISBN13: 9780192832504
Publisher: Oxford University Press Oxford Paperbacks
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Oct 1999
'I was born in Tuckahoe...I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters... More

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ISBN: 9780199539079 - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass Deborah E McDowell

ISBN10: 0199539073  ISBN13: 9780199539079
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Mar 2009
Frederick Douglass's Narrative recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and escape to freedom in 1838. An important slave autobiography, it is significant both for what it tells us about slave life and about its author. It is here reprinted with... More

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ISBN: 9780393318432 - Leaving Pipe Shop Leaving Pipe Shop
Deborah E McDowell

ISBN10: 0393318435  ISBN13: 9780393318432
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Oct 1998
In the illuminating language of memory, McDowell tells the story of her family, living a segregated life in Bessemer, Alabama, where her father worked at U.S. Foundry and Pipe, nicknamed "Pipe Shop". In the illuminating language of memory... More

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ISBN: 9780253209269 - The Changing Same The Changing Same
Deborah E McDowell

ISBN10: 0253209269  ISBN13: 9780253209269
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Apr 1995
McDowell's vibrant scholarship combines close textual analysis with attention to broad social, political, and cultural contexts. In this volume, she also critiques her own earlier positions, reconfiguring and contributing to the evolution of a new... More

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ISBN: 9780801839481 - Slavery and the Literary Imagination Slavery and the Literary Imagination
Deborah E McDowell, Arnold Rampersad

ISBN10: 0801839483  ISBN13: 9780801839481
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Aug 1989
Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)-- treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews-- to Sheley Anne William's "Dessa Rose" (1984). More

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ISBN: 9780253336293 - The Changing Same The Changing Same
Deborah E McDowell

ISBN10: 0253336295  ISBN13: 9780253336293
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Jun 1995
Examines defining moments in African American women's fiction and its reception: the 'Women's Era' of the 1890s, the Harlem Renaissance, and the 'New Black Renaissance' of the 1970s and 1980s. This book discusses representations of slavery... More